Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-02-19
A TUNELEsS SONG.

iects are the Item-the big plan /
ters-the best people, and TIE
Vicksburg merchants. The Item
labors under the delusion that it is
a wide awake concern. but II any |
one can point out an instance OF
anything in the way of life about
it, they shall have a chrome. The
town was partly overflowed few
weeks ago, by reason of the rail-
road Co., having closed up a drain
age ditch. Did the Item say any
thing about it? There is not a de-
cent road crossing along the entire |
line of the railroad except at Tai
lulah, has the Item even alluded
to it? Has the Item taken up any
grievance whatever, or made any
suggestion for the benefit of the
people of Madison Is there any
thing practical about the Item any
how? There is plenty of wind
and brag, and that is all.
TiIo big planters "ho are p"Uh-
ing that paper or the most solid
| MIN" and the best people appear
to be synonymous terms, according
to the Item yet there is not one OF
the so-called solid men who will
dare assert that he endorses the
Item in this position, and the
TIMES delies that paper to produce
a single one of its boosted solid
men who will do so. Some Of
them may, in their hearts, think
so, but it remained for the bloom
ing Item to come out and say it.
The very idea that the possession
of acres or dollars constitutes "the
best people" is preposterous and
absurd, and is of the same calibre
as the notion that the large prop
) erty holders should control the po-
litical affairs of the parish.
AS to the first merchants Of
= Vicksburg, why, they throw d
cheap advertisement to the Item
as they would throw bone to &
I, dog. The boosted aid from The
solid men of the parish, is said tC
have been largely used to secure
d the advertisements. 1t has beer
If said, and the TIMES fully believes
it, that these same solid men useC
their personal influence with thu
. first Vicksburg merchants to &c
advertisement for the Item, tina
" they indirectly-possibly direct,
n threatened to withdraw their trad
< from the first Vicksburg Merchants
5. if they did not so advertise, an
where that style would not do
is they put it on the ground of a per
s. sonal favor. All this is said to b
l. the case, and the TIMES believes II
and more too, for the most enthus
iastic crank in the parish, coul
~ not harbor, for a moment the idle
y that the Item could get single &C
" vertisement on its intrinsic merit:
10 Even with all this, and with tn
. "best people" in the parish drum
ming for it, both for subscriber
, and advertisers, it is doubtful
~ the Item has now a revenue Of tiy
90 hundred dollars a year. If to |
> self-supporting is to merely pa
% actual outlay, the Item may pc
~ sibly be self-supporting. That I'll
- proprietor of that paper denies
" cent of revenue from it, is incred
BILE, and beyond belief.
Ia The "best people" may not ha'
= subscribed for the TIMES. but
:. has been told the TINES that son
on of those very "best people, u.s.
7, to take a good deal Of trouble
;tv obtain a copy of it, and even we
IS considerably out of their way to
"a so. That they were pretty W
:, :, informed as to what appeared
ev- this paper speaks we'll
=, their thrift in getting go
mo reading matter at the exper
:, of some one else. This paI
of made its way not only without
active help of the alleged "b
people," but in spite of the act
opposition of some of them.
10. has curried favor with no one,
hen been outspoken on all subjects
the interest to the parish, is alwi
any on the side of the people of
ien' parish, as against anything e.
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